★★★★ “Driven by his love of the natural world, there are snippets of birdsong and the countryside wrapped around some classic pop tunes that call to mind Teenage Fanclub and the Beatles”
Scottish Daily Express

★★★★ “Woodland Echoes is an unhurried album full of paeans to passion and nature. Like his best solo work, his unmistakable Englishness is presented through an Americana filter”Mojo

4/5 “This is a classic pop songwriter in the XTC or Prefab Sprout vein back at his very best with clever lyrics and melodies that are sweet and simple”Buzz.ie

★★★★ “With meandering pop melodies that draw influence at times from Nashville, the Lennon and McCartney song book and west coast melancholia, there is an easy charm to the whole project that lends it a robust confidence… This sunny collection is perfectly pitched for a lazy afternoon”Record Collector

8/10 “’Baby Blue Sky’ and the idyllic ‘Perfect Sunday Sun’ invoke Teenage Fanclub; the ragtime guitar of ‘Who?’ and the jazz waltz ‘Love Is the Key By the Sea’ recalls Beck but it’s Paul McCartney whom Heyward most resembles throughout – both his cooing tenor voice and his impressive way with a smart chord change.”Uncut

★★★ “Pop at its most impervious to passing trends… like a nature-lover’s remix of The Jam’s romantic ‘English Rose’”The Observer

★★★ “Elegant, subtle and with uplifting lyrics conveying the wonder of finding inner peace”
The Mirror

“One of the architects of the 1980s pop explosion. The good part of it – with the whacking choruses, wry lyrics and great hair… Woodland Echoes is a thrilling selection of soulful pop-rock songs… Heyward couldn’t write a bad song if he tried”
The Monocle

“Woodland Echoes represents the masterful culmination of the last ten years of Nick Heyward’s solo career, drawing together the strength of his expertly crafted songwriting and gifted lyricism in what is one of the most captivating releases of the year”
HMV Recommended

“Musically, he hops from the pastoral, McCartney-like ‘Love Is the Key by the Sea’ to rootsy hoedowns, bluesy ballads, Byrdsy Rock and, on ‘Who?’, brassy swing. What holds it together is a sense that, at 56, the former pin-up can do as he pleases”
The Sunday Times